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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

A great reminder that the U.S. TB epidemic remains within living memory: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/h...

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Sanitariums and Stigma: When TB Was Common in the U.S.

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Emily Brontë—as on pointe in 2025 as she was in 1845. “Shedders of blood, shedders of tears Self cursers avid of distress; Yet mocking Heaven with senseless prayers, For mercy on the merciless.” —Emily Brontë

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Just in time for #TBHillDay happening this Wednesday.

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Hi friends, I’m looking for resources for creating curriculum tie-ins from books. Do you do this or know anyone who does? Thank you!

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

One man is responsible for getting 100s of books (including mine!) banned in Clay County, FL. One sad dude! Sitting there filling out form after form with false claims about books he hasn't even read! The loudest voices have an outsize impact. We need to be loud--and persistent--too. 5calls.org

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5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

2025: 🔥🔥🔥 1848 Emily Brontë: Power-worshippers from earliest time, Foot-kissers of triumphant crime Crushers of helpless misery, Crushing down Justice, Honoring Wrong: If that be feeble, this be strong.

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TB Community Coordination Hub @tbcommunityhub.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

ATTN #ENDTB advocates! Our initial summary report of findings from our #TB specific survey looking at the impact of US stop work orders is now available 👇 Within you can access links to Power BI for data visualizations. #FundTBNow #FundingCutsCostsLives drive.google.com/file/d/1gqrT...

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TB Specific Impact Survey Initial Summary Report (1).pdf

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This. Interrupting and/or cutting treatment funding for multi-drug resistant #TB 🧪 HIV, malaria, is not efficient. It will cause a completely avoidable global mass casualty event and set back decades of progress.

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Let’s keep moving forward on the road to #EndTB. Not backward.

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

A year ago I started writing what I thought was a dystopian book about a group of kids at a fascist government boarding school. Their top scientist parents disappear under mysterious circumstances when a new untreatable strain of tuberculosis starts to spread. It feels like non-fiction now.🫠 #TB

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Miss g @grainne.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My friends I have had tb. It is so hard to get out of your body once in. You must must stop this from happening.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Informative update about the Federal funding freeze from a thoughtful and effective politician: NC's new Attorney General, Jeff Jackson

Federal Funding Freeze

One time, many years ago, President Nixon announced that he wasn’t going to spend the money Congress had appropriated for some clean water programs.

And the Supreme Court unanimously said he couldn’t do that. If Congress passes a law that says, “Spend $100 on this,” the president can’t decide, “I’d rather spend $50.” The Constitution gives spending power to Congress - there’s no getting around that simply by declining to spend what they’ve appropriated.

Clinton tried something similar, though on a smaller scale, and the Supreme Court blocked him, too. He used a line-item veto - which Congress had explicitly given him! - to strike certain spending provisions from the budget. The Court ruled that violated the Constitution. Why? Because not even Congress can delegate its power to the president without amending the Constitution. Congress has certain power reserved to it, whether it likes it or not.

So when a president says, “Hey, freeze hundreds of billions that Congress appropriated,” it’s not a close constitutional call. It goes much further than Nixon and Clinton went, and it’s obviously not going to hold up in court.

And it didn’t.

On Sunday night, just as I was sitting down to dinner with my family, I got a text about the president’s order to freeze a massive chunk of federal funding. I read the order - just a page and a half long - and it was immediately clear that it was unlawful.

First thing the next morning, I spoke with my team and we all agreed: Based on clear precedent, this violated the Constitution. So we joined the lawsuit to challenge it, and the court quickly put the freeze on hold, pending a full hearing.

Now the order has been withdrawn entirely. The administration said it “didn’t go through the proper approval process.”

Now we’re waiting to see if funding freeze version 2.0 appears. If it does, I assume they’ll take a more tailored approach in the hope of surviving a court challenge.

Here’s what I take from all of this: The rule of law still holds. When power is overstepped, there are mechanisms to pull it back. And it’s important to hold the line, not for politics, but to defend the constitutional order on which civil society depends.

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A lot of historically grounded wisdom in this piece, including from former KS State Health Secretary on protecting the public’s health, “More information is better than no information.” Stark contrast to countless health info sites being shut down to restrict information & consolidate power. #TBSky

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The wait is almost over! Join us this morning for the announcement of the 2025 ALA Youth Media Awards. #ALAYMA

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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 15/01/2025

I wrote about how the simulation myth is making my 7 year old cry. And about how Musk, Andreessen and Altman use the simulation myth’s doctrine of power to justify real harm. www.pocketobservatory.org/my-kid-is-af...

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My kid is afraid we're in a simulation

A techno-optimist creation myth is keeping her up at night.

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Let’s go! Also—U.S. friends—worth mentioning to your senators that RFK opposes infectious disease research and his appointment to Secretary of Health and Human Services is a very bad idea. #tbsky #tbfighters

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Maybe a hot take, maybe not…Wuthering Heights is not a love story. It’s a warning.

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

There is a special sort of satisfaction when one finishes a book and in the next moment begins another.

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Patricia Toht @patriciatoht.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Wonderful post on Picture Book Builders about Katey Howes’ upcoming picture book, The Reindeer Remainders. #math #friendship #empathy picturebookbuilders.com/2024/06/the-...

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The Reindeer Remainders – a tribute to (and interview with) the late Katey Howes

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

Non #kidlit related, but you always have the best ideas so…I desperately need a new mattress and pillow. Do you love yours? What do you have?

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

Meg.🫶 “I can't stop moving, even when I try. Motion is change and change is time and time will move me away from you. But when it seems I've gone very still, please remember I can't stop moving even when I try.” www.pocketobservatory.org/guerilla-…

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 11/06/2024

Saddened to hear the news about kidlit author @kateywrites.bsky.social. 😢 Katey's friends have established scholarship fund at the Highlights Foundation: www.highlightsfoundation.org/the-katey-ho...

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The Katey Howes Fund - Highlights Foundation

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Here’s an idea 💡 What would happen if instead of authors being paid an advance by a publishing house, authors were given a salary? 1/3

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Who watched HITMAN on Netflix over the weekend? What did you think? I was worried when I saw an editing mistake in the opening credits. It did not get better from there. Some great moments but it was almost like they ran out of time to fully edit the movie and just had to turn it in.

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Interesting conversation happening on another platform today about publishers lack of transparency on paying authors. Many authors never see their advance until the book is nearing completion. Has this been your experience?

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Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

🚨ATTENTION AUTHORS + ILLUSTRATORS🚨 the next episode of the podcast I’m going to be talking to an author who has a lot of expertise around AI — the good, the bad and the ugly. If you have burning questions, please let me know and I’ll try to get to as many as possible!

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 06/06/2024

Related: Did you know that #kidlitartpostcard was started by @ginaperry.bsky.social in May of 2021? Did you also know that TODAY is the FIRST #kidlitartpostcard Gina has encouraged illustrators across social media to exclusively post their #art on Bluesky and Cara? That’s a BIG DEAL! 💙❤️

An illustration of a child running with a bag of postcards and a pair of hands in the foreground holding one of the postcards which read: Moving to: BLUESKY + CARA. Across the top in rainbow lettering is the hashtag #kidlitartpostcard.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 06/06/2024

I got the best news today from one of the artists whose work went out in the Heritage Auction that someone who bought a drawing from him long ago, and sold it for a lot more recently, is sending him 10% of the profits. So the idea of cutting in the artists is starting to catch on. And I'm glad.

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Hi 👋 After listening to @brianlarossa.com and @literaticat.bsky.social excellent podcast episode discussing art direction in kidlit and hearing Brian’s praises of @bsky.app I’m hoping to create community here. Please say hi and introduce yourself. Would love to meet you. 🫶

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

Please don't ask authors to speak at your Banned Books Week programs this fall if you're not going to pay them. Now more than ever, authors need to be compensated for their work. Asking authors to work for free in this moment is unacceptable and disrespectful.

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

What a weekend. 🫠 14 & 11 year old were in an accident that landed them on a yellow jacket nest during a ⛈️🌪️ ⛈️warning. 14 YO covered in cuts and bruises. 🩻Broken clavicle and humerus for the 11 YO, pneumothorax, broken scapula, and lots of staples 🤕 for their friend.

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

Yes! Applied sci-fi stories are my favorite to read and to write.🤓

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

I’d love to be a fly on the wall of a convention between Greta Gerwig and Emily Brontë.

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Camille Andros @camilleandros.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

What do you think Emily Bronte’s next book would have been about if she hadn’t died from tuberculosis?

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